Sunday Times North editor and wife released

SUNDAY TIMES Northern Ireland editor Liam Clarke and his wife Kathryn Johnston were released on bail yesterday from police custody.

The couple had been arrested by detectives investigating the leaking of transcripts of telephone conversations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

The transcripts were contained in a new updated biography of the Sinn Féin chief negotiator co-written by the couple.